Hey readers! Welcome to the page. Have you ever read a novel that is kinda a ‘fairy tale’ but unbelievably inspiring, which has the power to change our lives and to make a life-enhancing effect. Well, I guess you’re already familiar with the title that we’re gonna be discussing today, ‘The Alchemist’. I’ve already written about The Alchemist, check it out if you haven’t yet – The Alchemist: Summary and Review. So, today we’d be discussing The Alchemist quotes, which, as I said earlier are extremely motivational and have the power to ‘make a difference.’
“Reading the Alchemist was like getting up at dawn and seeing the sunrise while the rest of the world still slept.”
-HarperCollins
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Let’s get straight to these ‘life-enhancing’ The Alchemist quotes-
The Alchemist Quotes-
“If you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here.”
“I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful. I weep because, each time he knelt beside my banks, I could see, in the depths of his eyes, my own beauty reflected.”
-Quoted by the lake for Narcissus
“Well, usually I learn more from my sheep than from books.”
“We have to be prepared for change.”
“It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
“Dreams are the language of God.”
“It’s the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.”
“When someone sees the same person every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person’s life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn’t what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
“What’s the world’s greatest lie? It’s this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what’s happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.”
“To realize one’s destiny is a person’s only real obligation. All things are one.”
“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
“People learn early in their lives, what is their reason for being. Maybe that’s why they give up on it so early, too. But that’s the way it is.”
”The gods should not have desires, because they don’t have destinies.”
“I’m like everyone else – I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does.”
“I’m afraid that if my dream is realized, I’ll have no reason to go on living.”
“Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.”
“There’s no such thing as coincidence.”
“The closer one gets to realizing his destiny, the more that destiny becomes his true reason for being.”
“Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are able to know everything because it’s all written there.”
“People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want.”
“When you want something with all your heart, that’s when you are closest to the Soul of the World. It’s always a positive force.”
“Why do they make things so complicated? So that those who have the responsibility for understanding can understand. Imagine if everyone went around transforming lead into Gold. Gold would lose its value.”
“If good things are coming, they will be a pleasant surprise. If bad things are, and you know in advance, you will suffer greatly before they even occur.”
“Men always live their lives based on the future.”
“The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better. Forget about the future and live each day according to the teachings, confident that God loves his children each day, in itself, brings with it an eternity.”
“And God only rarely reveals the future. When he does so, it is for only one reason: It’s a future that was written so as to be altered.”
“Courage is the quality most essential to understanding the Language of the World.”
“Life attracts life.”
“There is only one way to learn. It’s through action.”
“The wise men understood that this natural world is only an image and a copy of paradise. The existence of this world is simply a guarantee that there exists a world that is perfect. God created the world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom. That’s what I mean by action.”
“You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it’s better to listen to what it has to say. That way, you’ll never have to fear an unanticipated blow.”
“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second’s encounter with God and with eternity.”
“Everyone on earth has a treasure that awaits him.”
“Every search begins with beginner’s luck. And every search ends with the victor’s being severely tested.”
“Darkest hour of the night came just before the dawn.”
“When you possess great treasures within you, and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed.”
“Men have never understood the words of the wise. So gold, instead of being seen as a symbol of evolution, became the basis for conflict.”
“When something evolves, everything around that thing evolves as well.”
“And anyone who interferes with the destiny of another thing never will discover his own.”
“If a person is living out his destiny, he knows everything he needs to know. There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: The fear of failure.”
“Usually the threat of death makes people a lot more aware of their lives.”
“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are.”
“Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.”
“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn’t know it.”
“It’s true; life really is generous to those who pursue their destiny.”
That’s all for The Alchemist Quotes. Hope you liked it.
